airfocus

Airfocus Review

Opmerkingen: Airfocus is helping our team organize our project activities into Sprints in the Kanban board as well as giving us a high-level overview in the Gantt Roadmap. The Priority Chart is a cool feature which is allowing us to evaluate projects based on voting/ranking. Overall our experience with Airfocus was been very positive.

Pluspunten:

The first thing my team and I liked most about this software is that it covers all the bases for project management: Gantt roadmap, Kanban board and the Priority Chart. The second thing we liked most was how easy it was to use and how it effortlessly integrated into Trello. The customization was the icing on the cake; it allows you to create custom weights for your items and then graphs those items in the Priority Chart which gives a nice high-level overview of your activities in terms of priority. My team was very impressed with this functionality. Finally, the customer service has been outstanding. Representative, their head of marketing & sales has promptly responded to every question and even took a call on short notice to help us address a couple of hiccups which their dev team quickly resolved.

Minpunten:

At the moment Airfocus does not have a dependency feature, which would be great for the Gantt roadmap. Having a visual dependency link between items would make Airfocus and one-stop-shop for all things project management. However, representative has told me that this functionality should be available very soon. One other potential con is, depending on the size of your business, the cost of the editor license. It´s not cheap but for the scale and duration of my team´s projects, it certainly has been worth it so far.

An exceptional decision making tool

Opmerkingen: Decision making is super complex in our organizations. Airfocus makes it easier to align to our strategic priorities. I can see this being used as a feature level for releases too. An excellent platform for cross party alignment.

Pluspunten:

There are many roadmapping tools out there. I've tried them all. However none allowed me to prioritize with ease and display important initiatives in a visual & decisive manner such as Airfocus. The options to customize & visualize priorities are world class!

Minpunten:

Perhaps the timeline view can become more visually appealing. It lacks some of the UI features that other tools may have.

Overwogen alternatieven: Productboard

Redenen om voor airfocus te kiezen: Poor prioritization options on Product Plan

Overgestapt van: ProductPlan

Redenen om over te stappen op airfocus: Lack of visual priorities. Also it was super expensive.

Still figuring out the best way to do this

Opmerkingen: We are just starting using the tool and I already found value but only after all my product processes can go through Airfocus I will not be able to fully achieve the full value of the tool

Pluspunten:

The prioritisation features and ability to share roadmaps dynamically with different stakeholders

Minpunten:

The JIRA integration is still missing important features. I would like to be able to control more of JIRA from Airfocus itself.

Overwogen alternatieven: Roadmunk en Productboard

Redenen om over te stappen op airfocus: Because of the ability of sharing roadmaps dynamically with stakeholders

Good product

Opmerkingen: It's a good product, looking forward to filling out more of the fields to experience the full extent of the product.

Pluspunten:

Easy to get started with listing and sorting items. Good and extensive variety of views available that you can toggle between

Minpunten:

Drag and drop feature not available to drag items between objectives. A bit overwhelming to begin with as there are so many options and fields

Good tool

Pluspunten:

I like it very customizable, so I can choose a template that I need and adjust it. I used a project management roadmap template, really like the way it's set up with tasks list, kanban board and timeline, 3 key views I need. Overall I like kanban board the most because it's quite clear for the team to know what's done, and what's in progress.

Minpunten:

It's relatively quite expensive comparing to other tools. I'm using it for project management with several workstreams and departments, so not that interested in the prioritization, because things are planned beforehand. But seems that feature has to be there and can't get rid of the scoring when I don't need it. And also I can't trace history version or activities, so if someone did something wrong in my team, we need to manually fix it.

Overwogen alternatieven: Asana

Redenen om over te stappen op airfocus: Because people in the team has used Airfocus, so we go with the more familiar one for everyone.